€460
Star Lot: A vibrant large original Tom Byrne (b. 1962) acrylic on canvas paining featuring a portrait of Irish literary great, Seamus Heaney. Wonderful likeness achieved through confident and gestural brushstrokes. Rendered in bright shades greens and yellows. Signed bottom left and housed in a high quality wooden frame in a lime green finish. Byrne has a very strong auction history with works fetching upwards of €3000 at Whyte's.
MM: 52 x 62 cm including frame
Tom Byrne was born in Dublin in 1962. He studied at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, where he trained in the Bauhaus tradition, a revolutionary 20th century school of artistic training which integrated craftsmanship, art and technology. Byrne describes, "religion, politics and celebrity all play equally important roles in my work". His strong interest in current affairs along with his punk mentality merges to create an artist who is in tune with the world around him. Informed by spirituality and popular culture alike, the artist thinks of himself as a contemporary artist first and foremost, selecting beauty from everyday experience and channeling it into painterly abstractions. There is a video of this lot on our tic tok facebook and Instagram page under South Dublin Auction.
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